COVID Operation

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Going Viral and Setting the World a-Blaise: Three Steps to Thinking Better

• A look at how a time of confinement and isolation can benefit us.

How to Keep Your Mind

• A reflection on habit formation to maintain a sound mind.

Pandemic Reading List

Finding Meaning in the Midst of Suffering

• When Breath Becomes Air by Dr. Paul Kalanithi, MD
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Dr. Viktor Frankl, MD
• Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul by Naomi Levy

Habit Formation

• Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results by James Clear

Mental Health Management

• ACT Made Simple: An Easy-To-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Russ Harris
• “I Spent a Year in Space, and I Have Tips on Isolation to Share” (NY Times) by Scott Kelly (Astronaut)

Philosophical Classics

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Resources (Categories in alphabetical order)

Canadian Resources

• Track cases in Canada
• Wikipedia’s 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Canada
• Government of Canada: Epidemiological summary of COVID-19 cases in Canada
• Testing centres near you (1) (2)

COVID-19, Pregnancy & Infant Care

• The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: Algorithm for Outpatient Assessment and Management for Pregnant Women With Suspected or Confirmed Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: Clinical Guidance
• Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists: Coronavirus infection and pregnancy
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Pregnancy & Breastfeeding – Information about Coronavirus Disease 2019
• Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine: Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Pregnancy: What Maternal-Fetal Medicine Subspecialists Need to Know
• Clinical analysis of 10 neonates born to mothers with 2019-nCoV pneumonia (Translational Pediatrics, 2020 Feb; 9(1) : 51-60; doi: 10.21037/tp.2020.02.06)

Educational resources

• How to wash your hands like a surgeon
• How to remain calm in these stressful times (Dr. Amin Azzam, MD)
• Q&A with an infectious disease physician & former Outbreak Investigator at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) (Dr. Rishi Desai, MD, MPH)
• COVID-19: Pathology, causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
• Armando Hasudungan: A visual summary of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Ninja Nerd Science: COVID-19 | Corona Virus: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Diagnostics
• COVID19 Insights by Bill Rodriquez, MD (Infectious disease specialist and pandemic expert)
• COVID-19 Podcast by Dr. Peter Attia, MD (surgical oncologist focused on lifespan and healthspan)
• The Science Behind the Coronavirus, the complete series by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD (surgeon, professor, inventor, executive chairman of the Los Angeles Times and billionaire businessman)
• Dr. Zubin Damania, MD: Managing cognitive distortions when discussing COVID-19 and lockdown procedures
• Dr. Zubin Damania, MD: The nuances of measuring death rate in a pandemic

General Statistical Information

• Global trends
• Johns Hopkins University’s CSSE’s Global Tracker
• Tomas Pueyo‘s Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
• Tomas Pueyo’s Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance (Follow-up to his first article)
• Wikipedia’s 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic page
• Joe Rogan’s interview with Dr. Michael Osterholm, PhD
• COVID-19 Interactive Visualizer
• “COVID-19 Watch: The Curve Steepens” by Alan Whiteside OBE (academic and researcher who was crucial in investigating the social impacts of HIV/AIDS in the 80s and 90s)

Mental Health Apps

• Headspace – “Mindfulness for your everyday life. Stress less. Move more. Sleep soundly.”
• Calm – “The #1 App for Meditation and Sleep”

National Pandemic Management

• Kang Kyung-wha, South Korean Foreign Minister: South Korea’s Strategy to Minimize Pandemic’s Effects
• Singapore’s successful containment efforts derived from strategies that were developed after suffering devastating losses during 2003 SARS outbreak

Sources of Hope

• John Krasinski‘s new YouTube channel, “Some Good News“, looking at some of the good happening in the world these days (WARNING: Tears of joy are highly likely)

Strategies for Healthcare Professionals

• Dr. Alain Gauthier, MD, PhD: How to double ventilator capacity in a rural hospital

Symptom Management & Treatment

• Dr. Zubin Damania, MD (a.k.a. ZDogg): The truth about COVID-19 and Ibuprofen (TL;DR the French Minister wasn’t completely wrong)
• Research and Development on Therapeutic Agents and Vaccines for COVID-19 and Related Human Coronavirus Diseases